Audience Response Systems

An audience response system (ARS) is a tool that allows trainers and event facilitators to collect live feedback from a group of meeting participants. Participants use keypads to respond to interactive questions created and displayed by the presenter. By pressing a button, participants send their responses to the ARS system, where they are collected in real time and tabulated into a graph, which denotes how everyone voted. Group feedback systems are used to stimulate event interactivity, increase participant content retention, and facilitate anonymous opinion polling.